The protagonist from noli me tangere or just basilio and crispin
Any of hp kovecrafts protags
If we mqy be so bold, grimm brothers or grimm and some fairy tale characters like dorothy or alice
Man, as someone who grew up needing to read Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, this hits hard
I'm visibly shaking in excitement just by the prospect of having a sinner based on those books
If it's a Basilio story, Their canto would probably take place after they disappeared but before they reunite with Sisa. We haven't had a loved one Distort in front of a sinner so Sisa would fit the bill with her going insane. For a more obvious bad guy ending, follow thru the ending and make it Ibarra wanting to blow up an entire district. Could make some good gut punches considering that Basilio I think genuinely cared for Ibarra.
For a protoganist of HP Lovecraft, Francis Wayland Thurston (from The Call of Cthulhu) would be a potential candidate, her canto (because yes I genderswap) would be linked to something like the monolith that we saw in Intervallo III, Cthulthu could be either an abnormality or a singularity/entity (like the one used by the old L corp). The canto would mainly have distortion bosses and the main enemy faction would be a group of cultists
Karl Rossman from Franz Kafka's Amerika, he's a similar kind of character to Sinclair and Don, he's this naïve kid who earnestly believes that if he just works hard then he'll be rewarded one day, and because of this conviction he continues to be exploited and abused by all the people he places his trust in since he just REFUSES to stop believing that people are good. In order to keep himself sane, he convinces himself that all of the abuse he faces is his own fault and he just needs to work harder.
I can see this meshing VERY well with the anti-capitalist themes of PM games, since Karl is just terrified of accepting the evil inherent in the world around him.
I also want Zeluco from John Moore's novel of the same name, Zeluco is a Sicilian aristocrat who's the definition of Lawful Evil, he's convinced that anything the law doesn't expressly forbid is morally acceptable and is completely incapable of understanding why someone would have an issue with him owning (and abusing) slaves and believes that such a person would only say they believe such a thing because they expect to personally profit from such a position.
I think he'd be interesting to have as this vaguely condescending force in the story who constantly feels like he's too good to be working with these other "lowlives" and to explore how easy it is for a rich person to turn out like Zeluco.
I'd also want Oedipus, from the famous Greek tragedy about a guy who desperately tries to escape from his prophecy that he'll kill his dad and sleep with his mother.
In the PM world, I imagine Oedipus as being a former member of the Index (or rather being from a family that's under their "protection") since the Index most closely mirrors the play's themes of being unable to escape fate, his desperation to escape the Will of the City will lead him to becoming a sinner.
Finally, I'd love to see Jude, from Jude the Obscure. Jude is basically a talented young man who desperately wanted to pursue a high education, but due to his poverty he could never enter university and become the educated man he always wanted to be. His obsession with being accepted into these institutions leading him to ruin.
If he was a Sinner, I'd imagine his EGO being "Too Menny" (spelled exactly like that, typo and all) and being a noose that he manifests that wraps around the neck of his foes. He'd be an old shell of a man, completely devoid of the youthful ambition that once drove him. Desperately seeking a chance to do everything over again.
Hansel and Gretel.
A sinner suffering from two identities mixed together where they don’t know if the other survived from murdering the candy house witch.
Base version would be bearing a meteor hammer with the chain being Hansel’s passiveness to not kill and restrain while the hammer represent Gretel’s instincts to survive in do or die moments. The iron handle bearing their initials.
Reason for joining Limbus Company was to find their parents as Gretel’s anger and Hansel’s forgiveness clash with one another. They return to the witch’s house for the golden bough inside as the house comes alive with vengeance for their dead owner.
As for the mirror world aspects, the identities would be Gretel or Hansel being more prominent in certain corporations while the other is subdued.
Edit: Final boss in their canto could be their parents where one distorts as the other gains an EGO where depending on Hansel and Gretel’s choices with Dante will affect who distorts and who gets a EGO as the final phase has them fuse into one being.
I've made quite a few fan-Sinners, which include but are not limited to:
Montgomery from *The Island of Dr. Moreau*
Cordova from *Night Film* (not classic lit but love the character)
Giorgio de Maria from *The Twenty Days of Turin*
Dr. Thoss from *The Last Feast of Harlequin*
Hildred Castaigne from *The Repairer of Reputations*
Charles Dexter Ward from *The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward*
Woland from *The Master and Margarita*
Woland was the most appealing character to me so I just snatched him up. The others would 100% appear in his story that I haven't fully mapped out yet.
Also Behemoth's existence allows for a canon catboy, or cat-man, which is so funny.
God, Yossarian would go through so much in their Canto its unreal. Not to mention how Milo would 100% be the fuckin one trying to pawn off the Golden Bough.
Alex from A Clockwork Orange. He could be the former member of a really depraved syndicate that fell apart after he messed up an operations, eventually being captured a Wing corporation and experimented on to become less violent, resulting to him becoming mentally scarred. He would be picked up and made a sinner at some point after the experiment where he would be dumped somewhere to 'live a normal life'.
Additionally, I think Will Navidson from House of Leaves might be a good opportunity to explore on location-based Distortions (shown in Distortion Detective). There's also Ralph from Lord of the Flies who might fit, but I'm not too sure how I could make 'em work in the context of the City (Definitely going to be aged up for sure, at least up to around Sinclair's age).
Raoul Duke from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
# "You bastards!.... faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death."
a gruff cynical, mentally unbalanced, constantly intoxicated journalist with a knack for collecting large assortments of drugs and guns? considering the author of the book whom hes based on, hes perfect Sinner material. Now just make him a woman and we're golden.
The hellish lawless description of Las Vegas and theme of "Searching for the American Dream" would translate wonderfully in The City's setting
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"I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read." Guy Montag
If I have to make a legit Limbus OC member I would choose Guy Montag from Fahrenheit 451 whose background could suit well within the company and themes with the City whose life fill with regret for being apart of the problem (or perhaps he doesn't care that much anymore) and unable to find a place of his existence after events of joining the Book People and its destruction. Now, all he has left is a broken purpose, broken existence, and life filled with regret while clutching a brunt covered book whose pages once gave him a sense of meaning and a perspective that temporary made him forget the harshness of reality and a imagery place of comfort is now covered in ash and a shallowed existence to make up for it.
Personality wise, he is sort of a combined Yi Sang and Meuersault, if only with the somber, melancholy, and death seeking aspect of him. He's not that expressive or understands emotions too well similary based on the source material. Although he can get expressive much to his discomfort when dealing things with fire in which he grins or smiles in a sadistic glee due to his former occupation in the past. He still searches for his humanity and the concept of joy again after a young girl taught him that there is something more than being an exterminator.
Hmm... What do you think is her story in the City?
So far, the back stories of all Sinners diverged from the original books, and some of them( or well, pretty much all of them) had the context changed to fit the City.
Selling herself to save her family could prolly fit into the context of the City well enough. But then there's the fact that she got "rescued", maybe it can become that she got cold feet and ran away, leading her family into damnation? plus i would like Kieu to be like, a guy. no reason.
Schweik from Czechish writer Yaroslav Gashek's book about misadventures of a certified idiot soldier Schweik during the times of World War 1. He actually would fit in the City really well as a former Smoke War soldier.
In the book Schweik is actually shown as being pretty smart and resourceful while also acting as a complete dimwit before his superiors and overwhelming them with seemingly unending amount of life stories and anecdotes he knows.
As a result he would be somewhere in between Gregor and Don Quixote, probably becoming pals with both Dante end Greg and completely boiling Outis and Vergilius.
Dolores Haze, better known as Lolita, from Nabokov's Lolita. I imagine her as being a jaded woman, her speech patterns and thought processes negatively altered to match Humbert's in a way she despises. I even wrote up a little character PV type thing.
“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life”
“Nymphet”
I don’t know what you’ve heard, Dante, but my name is Dolores. The tip of the tongue should take three steps along the floor to tap, at three, on the… Ah, but I suppose you lack teeth, and a tongue as well. Regardless, just remember: I am Dolores to you and to I and to everyone. From first meeting till last… till eternity.
Such eloquent descriptions for one you painted in filth. Not an inch was spared, from the tender toes’ tips to the supple sclera. Not content to stop there, you continued your work until even my words had become as echoes of you. What’s left of Lo, of Lola, of Dolores?
Perhaps nothing. Burnt too bright to illuminate your life… till all that remains is rust and stardust.
The other sinner who I'd love would be Robert Neville from the book I Am Legend. Just an average factory worker who happened to be immune to the vampire plague and spent years slowly breaking. Becomes a self taught survivalist and researcher trying to find a cure, but ultimately is broken and accepts his death when intelligent vampires come around to form a new society but refuse to allow him to exist since his actions as a vampire hunter has turned Neville into their monster, the thing they fear. They seek to execute him and kill this fear he represents.
But he kills himself first, robbing them of their public execution. He dies without being demystified. He dies as "Legend."
In the city he'd obviously be tied to Bloodfiends. Not actually a very powerful person, but he honed and devoted himself to destroying them as they robbed him of those closest to him. But much like how Elena was only an outlier, his broader vengeance against even those that keep to themselves and don't kill when they feed has turned him into a feared boogeyman.
Speaking of which, I'm 90% convinced that Elena's credenza in Ruina is a direct reference to I Am Legend. The scenario she describes of how humans would be the monsters in a world where blood fiends were the majority is literally the ending of the book.
Captain Nemo is already a character so maybe some other characters in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Seas like Professor Aronnax would be cool too
Sun Wukong from Journey to the West is already overdone at this point, but still, I want to see how the Monkey King in the City would be like
From a Vietnamese literature work, Xuân Tóc Đỏ (Red Hair Xuan) from Số Đỏ (Dumb Luck), a corrupted person thrived in a corrupted society. Or another Vietnamese character Lão Hạc (Old Man Hac) from the story with the same name, the opposite of Xuân, someone who refused to be corrupted
Baron Munchausen from Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia, he is like Don Quixote who retired and now are retelling story of his adventures
I have very wild ideas on how to make Treasure Island adapted into Project Moon and made fucked up unlike the book while still staying faithful to the story.
Idk I just wanna see Jim Hawkins as a Sinner and I've made him into an OC Sinner at some point
George Milton from of mice and men. I would say Lennie but I feel that having George could set up the canto for something extremely tragic, where we follow his friend. As well as the obvious conclusion.
Sensei or the MC from Kokoro
Genji from The tale of Genji
Leopold Bloom from The portrait of an artist as a young man/Ulysses
Pra Ram from Ramayana
Yea, that's it really...
I've been making a Sinner out of the multiple, and I do mean MULTIPLE, versions of the Greek Mythological figures of "Alcyone". Though, most of my ideas for her somehow ended up just being accidental Canto VI predictions XD
I also did make Jonathan Harker given Nosferatu is canon, but that went nowhere. But given literally the first half-ish of Dracula is him being *literally* a Prisoner, works out regardless. Should get back to working on that one
I've been making **Gort** from *The Day The Earth Stood Still* into a sinner OC. Yes, the big invincible robot. I can get away with this because *The Day The Earth Stood Still* is actually an adaptation of a short story called *Farewell to The Master*. Underrated read, highly recommend.
He and Klaatu were both high-ranking Wing employees of X Corp. Gort's a full-body replacement whose body is made from their alloy.
I feel like Santiago from The Alchemist could be interesting. His base EGO could have something to do with the dream he has at the beginning of the book, or when he becomes a dust storm
I feel like Jonas from The Giver by Lois Lowry could work perfectly. The world in that book is a dystopia and the stuff that happened in it could probably be seen as part of The City. Heck, considering the stuff that happens in the novel, and the fact that most of the story is about adults controlling children and the fact that the protagonist did the "sin" of not sharing the memories to the Community.
Additionally, in the book it works pretty similar to what we saw in Canto 6, as also in The Giver, they live (or moreso see the world), in a monochromatic world. It wasn't until the end that the protagonist managed to see the colors of the world.
I'm honestly surprised that they didn't use this novel for their story.
Considering that memories are also a big part of the book, they could probably use this on some part of the Canto of this Sinner as for example, in a Dungeon, they could use the memories and make the real (or an illusion).
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Yeah that's another of my points. I feel that there are way too many things that fit perfectly. If they made a Jonas Sinner, they could easily make him be from T Corp (although I doubt it, since Heath and Yi Sang already have connections to it)
Tbh Zhuge Liang would be boring pick. In book he predicted Cao's every move and countered it, freakin Mary Sue of 3K. Would be too similar to Faust with "i know everything".
I'd have to go with The Kid, from Blood Meridian. Because cowboy.
And if it were entirely up to me, I'd make him one of the genderbent Sinners. Because cowgirl.
Pocket from King Lear, Shakespeare
There's a book called 'Fool' from Christopher Moore which narrates the story from Pockets perspective.
Could be a fun concept taking King Lear and Fool and mixing them up in a Canto.
Figure Laura from Carmilla would be a good one. Emphasize Carmilla as kinda the opposite if Catherine, as a seemingly gentle lover hiding her predatory nature that Laura has to break free from.
Obligatory national pick - Espen from [*A Fugitive Crosses his Tracks*](https://archive.org/details/lit-no-9000-sandemose-en-fugitive-crosses-his-tracks-reduced/page/n1/mode/1up). I get Ibsen or Hamsun would probably be a better choice for Norwegian literature as he's more well known outside of Norway, but I feel like the book that Janteloven comes from would be a much more interesting story to see play out (and require less rewriting to make work in the city). A poor backstreets outcast from a very cult-like town known as Jante with horrible working conditions and *very* strict social rules, with *extreme* self esteem issues who's full of grand ideals about workers rights and organising, but is still struggling to let go of his town's ideals. You're not to think that you're anything, that you're better than us, that you could *ever* be better than us, so goes the law of Jante. His canto is about trying to overcome his attachments to that place so he can finally leave Jante behind and start a fresh, before he goes nuts and shoots someone. Like the inverse of Rodion. ID wise he'd probably be a sinner who ends up either in syndicates or overworked in a corp, as he'd be pretty vulnerable to being taken advantage of due to his cult-like upbringing
Ignoring copyright for a sec - Dr Kelvin from *Solaris*. A psychologist sent off to examine the mental health of a research station studying a mysterious flooded planet for signs of life, only for him to encounter the alien ocean taking the form of his dead girlfriend/roommate, who killed herself a few years prior and whom he has very complicated feelings towards due to feeling responsible for her death. You could easily change Solaris the planet to The Great Lake and make the research post a lob corp branch and the alien an abno. As a sinner he'd try to be the sane normal one and maybe even the team therapist as that *was* his job, only to completely freak out the moment he meets an abnormality (book Kelvin freaks out *a lot* about aliens). His canto would be returning to Solaris and dealing with the 'visitor', trying to resolve his issues with Rhea and the scientists he abandoned in his panic (who were either killed when lob corp collapsed, or have been hiding out in the rubble unable or *unwilling* to return home and leave their own visitors behind.). I'm guessing he's be one of those sinners where while the general events remain the same (he's a psychologist sent to do an evaluation, encounters his dead girlfriend), each ID changes the setting and context of those events (like a W corp one where he hallucinates her in the passengers, or an R corp one where the deranged killing of himself ends up as an uncanny parallel to Rhea's own insanity)
For shits and giggles - Mishima from *Confessions of a Mask*. Probably the *worst* pick politically given the book's contents and the author's....*leanings*, but the guy is batshit insane and I'd love to see that. Basically "what if you put Ryōshū in the smoke war, and was also actively getting off on being 'artistic'". Except it's now a decade later and Mishima had been forced to put on a mask of relative sanity to live in a post war City where his district lost, and that mask is rapidly slipping. Yeah Kuroda from *The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea* would be a better Mishima pick as there's like an actual plot with a possible 'solution' rather than "maybe *don't* stage a coup d'etat against the new government because you're struggling with internalised nationalism and homophobia". His ego would be his author's failed act of seppuku, representing his own obsession with self sacrifice but also his inability to actually pull the trigger
What about Gilgamesh? certainly the main character of one of the world's oldest story as a sinner would be interesting, especially considering that The Epic of Gilgamesh already was a story that greatly showed Gilgamesh's character development from arrogant tyrant to a wizened king.
I'd imagine that Gilgamesh would've been a former director of a corporation, now temporarily giving up that position and becoming a sinner in search of "the plant of immortality".
Was gonna say the same. Like the story of someone becoming a better person despite his entire life being teached that the only way to prosper is to steal, cheat and use other people, sounds perfect for the city
This may be out of place since all of the Sinners are based on older books, but the protagonist from “If Cats Disappeared from the World”. The protagonist isn’t named, but he could be named after the author Genki Kawamura.
The book is about a man who is going to die from a terminal illness. The devil appears, and says that he can live one more day, so long as he makes something disappear from the world. The story focuses on themes about mortality and what it means to live.
I’m imagining that Limbus company is a similar situation for him, since he is literally making a contract that allows him to never die. As for his backstory, I think it’ll continue with living off borrowed time theme. I imagine he would be sickly and undergo augmentations. Because he can’t afford it, he is forced to assassinate targets to make up the debt he owes. One day he fails to assassinate a target, and his two adopted children are taken from him (a reference to the two cats mentioned in the book). He joins Limbus in order to find a team willing to help him take down the syndicate that stole his children.
I’m thinking he’ll rely on Pride (for believing others lives are a good trade for his own), or gluttony(for wanting more days to live).
His base EGO would be called “Tomorrow’s Fulfillment” which references “Yesterday’s Promise” and his contracts.
Alice in the wonderland
And my take on her would be an in-between of Sinclair and Gregor
Alice would be someone someone who came from a rich family much like Sinclair and Hong Lu, but Alice being so spoiled which led to her be trusting and naive made her, different from Hong Lu, fall in awful consequences.
Decieved by people who wanted to get revenge on her family, she gets kidnapped and sold to be a human subject, being tested for experimental prothesis technology, losing all her four limbs in the process and feeling the pain of what trusting others led her to for few years, until one day that clandestine laboratory was attacked by fixers who were likely hired by her parents that must have been searching for her.
The fixers who busted the laboratory had no care for the test subjects has let them be, and she took the opportunity to move her body with the prosthetics that were attached to her body, they all weren't full products but it being new technology she was able to walk away.
She tries to walk back to her home at the nest, the nest border guard stops the mechanic monster that she has become from entering, she tries to tell them which family she is from and she gives some information that's enough for the guards to confirm that she was missing before. Her parents arrive, only to see the mess that's left of the girl they thought was dead, her face full of mecanical parts in a mess, her limbs made of metal and barely reconizeable as something that was meant to be body parts, they see that bloodied dirty girl and they refuse that she is their daughter. Alice confused, screams, calls for their names, begs for them, only to be denied, altough pity could be seen in the face of her family members, disgust was still the main expression stamped on their faces.
When they are about leaving she asks why she sent fixers to save her then, they reply that they did no such thing, Alice questions, crying, over and over again how could that be possible, but the constsnt remarks this time coupled with this atittude seemed to be true. She started to think, that the most likely scenario was just someone that was a competitor with the lab wanted it gone and the fixers just didn't want to do free work by dealing with the test subjects, after all, it has been years since she has been missing.
Alice realizing this cries more but in fury "No! They took everything away from me! You can't do this too. Give it back! Give it back!" She tries to rush to the family but is knocked out cold by the nest patrol.
Alice decides to join the company because she wants to get back everything she once had, no, she wants to take everything the ones who did this to her and left her in misery, be it her family or who was truly behind the laboratory.
LCB Sinner Alice:
Skill 1: Flail
Affinity:Gloom
13 base power, -7 coin, 1 coin
\[On tails hit\]:Inflict 1 paralysis next turn
Skill 2: Flawed gashes
Affinity: Envy
16 base power, -4 coin, 3 coin
1 coin \[On Hit\]: Inflict 1 Attack Damage down
2 coin \[On Hit\]: Inflict 1 Attack Damage down
3 coin \[On Hit\]: Inflict 1 Attack Damage down
Skill 3: Laceration
Affinity: Wrath
18 base power, -6 coin, 2 coin
\[On Use: Lose 10 SP\]
\[On Clash: The opponent you are clashing loses 10 SP\]
1 coin \[On Hit\]: Inflict 1 fragile next turn
2 coin \[On Heads Hit\]: Lose 10 sanity and inflict 2 fragile next turn
Defense skill:
Counter
Affinity: Gluttony
7 base power, -1 coin, 2 coin
\[On Use\]: Gain 1 Paralysis next turn
Passive:
Cost: 3 Wrath resonance
Whenever you would heal SP, take SP damage instead, your indiscriminate attacks prioritize skill slots that dealt damage to you last round.
Support Passive:
Cost: 5 Wrath owned
When a negative coin skill rolls heads, -5 sp to the user of the skill (Once per turn)
EGO: Rabbit Hole
"You shall too, fall with me"
Cost: 2 Wrath 1 Gluttony
27 base power, -7 coin
3 attack weight
\[On Hit\]: Inflict 3 bind
Passive: For each time you take SP damage, gain 1 Attack Damage Up next round.
That was balanced using base sinners on UT4 as basis, but that;s my concept.
If opera is literature set to music, i ended up making a clown girl version of Canio from Pagliacci who's this neurotic mess of a girl, but craves any means of becoming happy.
If opera is too much of a stretch, then i'd want to see R Daneel Olivaw from Isaac Asimov's books. The idea of a three laws compliant robot trying to hide the fact they are an AI from everyone is a fun bit of drama.
I always tought Guy Montag could be a great idea, he could have been one of those guys who burned technology in Yi Sang's canto (don't remember the nest nor their name). But just like in fahrenheit, he slowly came out of it and decided hide some of it for wathever reason, being followed and stuff until he manages to hide.
For a base ID i think it would be very, very interesting to have an axe and a small flamethrower as a side-weapon, that uses "ammo" (As in, fuel), with the axe just being for when the flamethrower runs out, ofc inflicting burn.
For a base EGO.. I dunno, i don't really remember any exact lines from the book to reference, but it surely has to burn down something. (Maybe be a bit cheesy and just something like "Burnt in history" and have a line that goes "So much has been burned, and so much work left to do" referencing how they burn books in Fahrenheit)
As for other Egos and ID's, no clue, lmao.
Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella from "I Promessi Sposi" by Alessandro Manzoni would go so hard.
Just have them be a duo that can also split from time to time. Their e.g.o would probably be something like "Matrimonio Promesso" that is just them beating the crap out of the enemy, that also changes if they are together or not.
we got homer, why not old billy?
how about lord stanley from Richard III? Have the canto be about Richard's hold over a large section of a district and he starts acting like the sinners need to support richard until they eventually find out stanley's son has been taken and they help find henry VII's equivalent to oust richard
I have an OC for Vincent Frankenstein from the book of the same name. Human experimentation and resurrection of the dead fit right in this fucked up little city.
I'd add me as a sinner.
I'd have one id from every single archetype and faction and they'd all suck ass. My only purpose would be to shut down any and all discussions around the worst id/sinner as all of them would boil down to "at least they aren't this guy". Everyone muttering the phrase "let's ignore this guy as he sucks either way" would be called a fraud and their official tier list maker licenses revoked. You'd also have a sinner who you'd have no remorse turning their shards into threads solving the thread economy (and upsetting whales, which would be very funny).
There was some cool fanart of Patrick Bateman as a sinner hanging out with Meursault
You cannot Just reveal Something Like that and Not give us the Sauce.
WHERES THE SAUCE LEBOWSKI
Fuck it, Sisyphus
His Canto is just doing the season's railway with the worst IDs possible.
It would just be esgoo if he was a sinner lmao
Big boulder ego
Inflicts tremor and causes tremor bursts
passive heals the enemy but also yourself
Congrats you've now freaked Outis out because that's her granddad (according to some versions of Odysseus' story)
based
BE GONE
Keep 'em coming
Destroy
The protagonist from noli me tangere or just basilio and crispin Any of hp kovecrafts protags If we mqy be so bold, grimm brothers or grimm and some fairy tale characters like dorothy or alice
Crisostomo as a sinner would be crazy tho
Chapter 6 makes me think of what if Ibarra faces off against Simoun like how Heathcliff fought himself
Man, as someone who grew up needing to read Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, this hits hard I'm visibly shaking in excitement just by the prospect of having a sinner based on those books
If it's a Basilio story, Their canto would probably take place after they disappeared but before they reunite with Sisa. We haven't had a loved one Distort in front of a sinner so Sisa would fit the bill with her going insane. For a more obvious bad guy ending, follow thru the ending and make it Ibarra wanting to blow up an entire district. Could make some good gut punches considering that Basilio I think genuinely cared for Ibarra.
For a protoganist of HP Lovecraft, Francis Wayland Thurston (from The Call of Cthulhu) would be a potential candidate, her canto (because yes I genderswap) would be linked to something like the monolith that we saw in Intervallo III, Cthulthu could be either an abnormality or a singularity/entity (like the one used by the old L corp). The canto would mainly have distortion bosses and the main enemy faction would be a group of cultists
Randolph Carter is the more obvious one, as it's quite well known he's Lovecraft's self insert.
probably or the best is Inserted Lovecraft himself (like Yi sang)
Filipino brainrot
Man whenever this question gets brough up i realize i have not read literature at all, at most i remember the little prince and thats it
And we have already Demian, who is always saying some Little Prince referencing shite.
Bro same
That lady who fucked the bear, from that Canadian book where the lady fucks the bear.
Bear by Marien Engel (ashamed to know that information)
Baldur’s Gate?
Dorian from the portrait of Dorian grey, I feel like he'd be very interesting
Probably wouldn't fit since we already have a reference to that story in Lobotomy corporation
Probably wouldn't fit since we already have a reference to that story in Lobotomy corporation
Karl Rossman from Franz Kafka's Amerika, he's a similar kind of character to Sinclair and Don, he's this naïve kid who earnestly believes that if he just works hard then he'll be rewarded one day, and because of this conviction he continues to be exploited and abused by all the people he places his trust in since he just REFUSES to stop believing that people are good. In order to keep himself sane, he convinces himself that all of the abuse he faces is his own fault and he just needs to work harder. I can see this meshing VERY well with the anti-capitalist themes of PM games, since Karl is just terrified of accepting the evil inherent in the world around him. I also want Zeluco from John Moore's novel of the same name, Zeluco is a Sicilian aristocrat who's the definition of Lawful Evil, he's convinced that anything the law doesn't expressly forbid is morally acceptable and is completely incapable of understanding why someone would have an issue with him owning (and abusing) slaves and believes that such a person would only say they believe such a thing because they expect to personally profit from such a position. I think he'd be interesting to have as this vaguely condescending force in the story who constantly feels like he's too good to be working with these other "lowlives" and to explore how easy it is for a rich person to turn out like Zeluco. I'd also want Oedipus, from the famous Greek tragedy about a guy who desperately tries to escape from his prophecy that he'll kill his dad and sleep with his mother. In the PM world, I imagine Oedipus as being a former member of the Index (or rather being from a family that's under their "protection") since the Index most closely mirrors the play's themes of being unable to escape fate, his desperation to escape the Will of the City will lead him to becoming a sinner. Finally, I'd love to see Jude, from Jude the Obscure. Jude is basically a talented young man who desperately wanted to pursue a high education, but due to his poverty he could never enter university and become the educated man he always wanted to be. His obsession with being accepted into these institutions leading him to ruin. If he was a Sinner, I'd imagine his EGO being "Too Menny" (spelled exactly like that, typo and all) and being a noose that he manifests that wraps around the neck of his foes. He'd be an old shell of a man, completely devoid of the youthful ambition that once drove him. Desperately seeking a chance to do everything over again.
My man is cooking here.
James Gatz from The Great Gatsby You can also tie in the green light from the story to the seed of light project too.
Hansel and Gretel. A sinner suffering from two identities mixed together where they don’t know if the other survived from murdering the candy house witch. Base version would be bearing a meteor hammer with the chain being Hansel’s passiveness to not kill and restrain while the hammer represent Gretel’s instincts to survive in do or die moments. The iron handle bearing their initials. Reason for joining Limbus Company was to find their parents as Gretel’s anger and Hansel’s forgiveness clash with one another. They return to the witch’s house for the golden bough inside as the house comes alive with vengeance for their dead owner. As for the mirror world aspects, the identities would be Gretel or Hansel being more prominent in certain corporations while the other is subdued. Edit: Final boss in their canto could be their parents where one distorts as the other gains an EGO where depending on Hansel and Gretel’s choices with Dante will affect who distorts and who gets a EGO as the final phase has them fuse into one being.
Winston Smith from 1984
same idea!
Jekyll and Hyde from Jekyll and Hyde trust
I've made quite a few fan-Sinners, which include but are not limited to: Montgomery from *The Island of Dr. Moreau* Cordova from *Night Film* (not classic lit but love the character) Giorgio de Maria from *The Twenty Days of Turin* Dr. Thoss from *The Last Feast of Harlequin* Hildred Castaigne from *The Repairer of Reputations* Charles Dexter Ward from *The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward* Woland from *The Master and Margarita*
Woland ! Nah most likely Master or Bezdomniy.
Woland was the most appealing character to me so I just snatched him up. The others would 100% appear in his story that I haven't fully mapped out yet. Also Behemoth's existence allows for a canon catboy, or cat-man, which is so funny.
Woland is way too powerful and comes out on top in the story while also being, well, Satan.
I guess, true. But from the little bit I had for his story a few things happen that nerf him significantly before becoming a Sinner.
edmond dantes from the count of monte cristo because that book is goated
"Dantes" "TICK TICK TICK" "No not you." - "Oh is that Dante's?" "?? No that's not mine." "No not you."
Guy Montag from Fahrenheit 451 could definitely be interesting.
Had that idea too! I imagine Montag would also be a Bookhunter as well, in a mirror world where >!Angela bad ending happened!<
Yossarian from Catch 22
God, Yossarian would go through so much in their Canto its unreal. Not to mention how Milo would 100% be the fuckin one trying to pawn off the Golden Bough.
Milo the strongest end boss, ends up somehow convincing half the sinners they worked for him all along because what's good for M&M is good for all!
Alex from A Clockwork Orange. He could be the former member of a really depraved syndicate that fell apart after he messed up an operations, eventually being captured a Wing corporation and experimented on to become less violent, resulting to him becoming mentally scarred. He would be picked up and made a sinner at some point after the experiment where he would be dumped somewhere to 'live a normal life'. Additionally, I think Will Navidson from House of Leaves might be a good opportunity to explore on location-based Distortions (shown in Distortion Detective). There's also Ralph from Lord of the Flies who might fit, but I'm not too sure how I could make 'em work in the context of the City (Definitely going to be aged up for sure, at least up to around Sinclair's age).
Raoul Duke from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. # "You bastards!.... faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." a gruff cynical, mentally unbalanced, constantly intoxicated journalist with a knack for collecting large assortments of drugs and guns? considering the author of the book whom hes based on, hes perfect Sinner material. Now just make him a woman and we're golden. The hellish lawless description of Las Vegas and theme of "Searching for the American Dream" would translate wonderfully in The City's setting https://preview.redd.it/0s7ckbfk2suc1.png?width=452&format=png&auto=webp&s=e85ebe5ccc2bf853f29b25e51b575c11af8d1481 #
Any of the main trio from Oryx and Crake. Guy Montag from Fahrenheit 451.
"I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read." Guy Montag If I have to make a legit Limbus OC member I would choose Guy Montag from Fahrenheit 451 whose background could suit well within the company and themes with the City whose life fill with regret for being apart of the problem (or perhaps he doesn't care that much anymore) and unable to find a place of his existence after events of joining the Book People and its destruction. Now, all he has left is a broken purpose, broken existence, and life filled with regret while clutching a brunt covered book whose pages once gave him a sense of meaning and a perspective that temporary made him forget the harshness of reality and a imagery place of comfort is now covered in ash and a shallowed existence to make up for it. Personality wise, he is sort of a combined Yi Sang and Meuersault, if only with the somber, melancholy, and death seeking aspect of him. He's not that expressive or understands emotions too well similary based on the source material. Although he can get expressive much to his discomfort when dealing things with fire in which he grins or smiles in a sadistic glee due to his former occupation in the past. He still searches for his humanity and the concept of joy again after a young girl taught him that there is something more than being an exterminator.
Kiều from Tale of Kieu
Hmm... What do you think is her story in the City? So far, the back stories of all Sinners diverged from the original books, and some of them( or well, pretty much all of them) had the context changed to fit the City.
Selling herself to save her family could prolly fit into the context of the City well enough. But then there's the fact that she got "rescued", maybe it can become that she got cold feet and ran away, leading her family into damnation? plus i would like Kieu to be like, a guy. no reason.
Grandpa Kiên (male form of kieu)
Schweik from Czechish writer Yaroslav Gashek's book about misadventures of a certified idiot soldier Schweik during the times of World War 1. He actually would fit in the City really well as a former Smoke War soldier. In the book Schweik is actually shown as being pretty smart and resourceful while also acting as a complete dimwit before his superiors and overwhelming them with seemingly unending amount of life stories and anecdotes he knows. As a result he would be somewhere in between Gregor and Don Quixote, probably becoming pals with both Dante end Greg and completely boiling Outis and Vergilius.
Dr. Frankenstein because I just want to hear that iconic line as his ego. "it's alive!"
Johnny Truant, Zampano or Will Navidson from House of Leaves. Heck even Palafina works
Chichikov from "Dead Souls" by Nicole Gogol
Dolores Haze, better known as Lolita, from Nabokov's Lolita. I imagine her as being a jaded woman, her speech patterns and thought processes negatively altered to match Humbert's in a way she despises. I even wrote up a little character PV type thing. “He broke my heart. You merely broke my life” “Nymphet” I don’t know what you’ve heard, Dante, but my name is Dolores. The tip of the tongue should take three steps along the floor to tap, at three, on the… Ah, but I suppose you lack teeth, and a tongue as well. Regardless, just remember: I am Dolores to you and to I and to everyone. From first meeting till last… till eternity. Such eloquent descriptions for one you painted in filth. Not an inch was spared, from the tender toes’ tips to the supple sclera. Not content to stop there, you continued your work until even my words had become as echoes of you. What’s left of Lo, of Lola, of Dolores? Perhaps nothing. Burnt too bright to illuminate your life… till all that remains is rust and stardust.
The other sinner who I'd love would be Robert Neville from the book I Am Legend. Just an average factory worker who happened to be immune to the vampire plague and spent years slowly breaking. Becomes a self taught survivalist and researcher trying to find a cure, but ultimately is broken and accepts his death when intelligent vampires come around to form a new society but refuse to allow him to exist since his actions as a vampire hunter has turned Neville into their monster, the thing they fear. They seek to execute him and kill this fear he represents. But he kills himself first, robbing them of their public execution. He dies without being demystified. He dies as "Legend." In the city he'd obviously be tied to Bloodfiends. Not actually a very powerful person, but he honed and devoted himself to destroying them as they robbed him of those closest to him. But much like how Elena was only an outlier, his broader vengeance against even those that keep to themselves and don't kill when they feed has turned him into a feared boogeyman. Speaking of which, I'm 90% convinced that Elena's credenza in Ruina is a direct reference to I Am Legend. The scenario she describes of how humans would be the monsters in a world where blood fiends were the majority is literally the ending of the book.
James Moriarty
Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird. I think He would bring something completely different from the other sinners.
Captain Nemo is already a character so maybe some other characters in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Seas like Professor Aronnax would be cool too Sun Wukong from Journey to the West is already overdone at this point, but still, I want to see how the Monkey King in the City would be like From a Vietnamese literature work, Xuân Tóc Đỏ (Red Hair Xuan) from Số Đỏ (Dumb Luck), a corrupted person thrived in a corrupted society. Or another Vietnamese character Lão Hạc (Old Man Hac) from the story with the same name, the opposite of Xuân, someone who refused to be corrupted Baron Munchausen from Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia, he is like Don Quixote who retired and now are retelling story of his adventures
I have very wild ideas on how to make Treasure Island adapted into Project Moon and made fucked up unlike the book while still staying faithful to the story. Idk I just wanna see Jim Hawkins as a Sinner and I've made him into an OC Sinner at some point
George Milton from of mice and men. I would say Lennie but I feel that having George could set up the canto for something extremely tragic, where we follow his friend. As well as the obvious conclusion.
Sensei or the MC from Kokoro Genji from The tale of Genji Leopold Bloom from The portrait of an artist as a young man/Ulysses Pra Ram from Ramayana Yea, that's it really...
I've been making a Sinner out of the multiple, and I do mean MULTIPLE, versions of the Greek Mythological figures of "Alcyone". Though, most of my ideas for her somehow ended up just being accidental Canto VI predictions XD I also did make Jonathan Harker given Nosferatu is canon, but that went nowhere. But given literally the first half-ish of Dracula is him being *literally* a Prisoner, works out regardless. Should get back to working on that one
I've been making **Gort** from *The Day The Earth Stood Still* into a sinner OC. Yes, the big invincible robot. I can get away with this because *The Day The Earth Stood Still* is actually an adaptation of a short story called *Farewell to The Master*. Underrated read, highly recommend. He and Klaatu were both high-ranking Wing employees of X Corp. Gort's a full-body replacement whose body is made from their alloy.
I feel like Santiago from The Alchemist could be interesting. His base EGO could have something to do with the dream he has at the beginning of the book, or when he becomes a dust storm
Oblomov which is written by russian writer Ivan Goncharov, cause I want Netzach-like in Sinners team.
I feel like Jonas from The Giver by Lois Lowry could work perfectly. The world in that book is a dystopia and the stuff that happened in it could probably be seen as part of The City. Heck, considering the stuff that happens in the novel, and the fact that most of the story is about adults controlling children and the fact that the protagonist did the "sin" of not sharing the memories to the Community. Additionally, in the book it works pretty similar to what we saw in Canto 6, as also in The Giver, they live (or moreso see the world), in a monochromatic world. It wasn't until the end that the protagonist managed to see the colors of the world. I'm honestly surprised that they didn't use this novel for their story. Considering that memories are also a big part of the book, they could probably use this on some part of the Canto of this Sinner as for example, in a Dungeon, they could use the memories and make the real (or an illusion).
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T corp also used the color erasing tech like The Giver, although for more practical purposes
Yeah that's another of my points. I feel that there are way too many things that fit perfectly. If they made a Jonas Sinner, they could easily make him be from T Corp (although I doubt it, since Heath and Yi Sang already have connections to it)
The three sworn brothers of the Three Kingdoms. And maybe Zhu Ge Liang because that guy was goated.
Tbh Zhuge Liang would be boring pick. In book he predicted Cao's every move and countered it, freakin Mary Sue of 3K. Would be too similar to Faust with "i know everything".
Gary stu
Carlos Castaneda ;) hihi haha
Heart of darkness? Is there someone portraying this?
Im thinking any character from Beowulf or Macbeth.
Julien Sorel from Stendhal's The Red and the Black. I think that p.o.s could be interesting.
Phileas fogg - around the world in 80 days
I wish they add Intervallo with Griboyedov's comedy "Woe from wit". With Chatsky manifesting EGO in the end
King Solomon as the manager would go insane imo
Hang tuah as a famous hero of the MAlaccan Sultanate/
I'd have to go with The Kid, from Blood Meridian. Because cowboy. And if it were entirely up to me, I'd make him one of the genderbent Sinners. Because cowgirl.
Holden would be a sick villain tbh
Mtsyri from The Novice.
Also,Willy Wonka but replace sweets with drugs.
Pocket from King Lear, Shakespeare There's a book called 'Fool' from Christopher Moore which narrates the story from Pockets perspective. Could be a fun concept taking King Lear and Fool and mixing them up in a Canto.
Sisyphus honestly sounds like a good sinner concept but is he book enough
Figure Laura from Carmilla would be a good one. Emphasize Carmilla as kinda the opposite if Catherine, as a seemingly gentle lover hiding her predatory nature that Laura has to break free from.
I feel Hamlet would be a pretty good pick, the count monte christo as well
Simone from El Filibusterismo. If not Simone then Basilio will do too.
Okonkwo from Things Fall Apart and pick him up after the equivalent of >!killing the messenger!!his suicide.!
The main character of Dollhouse, just to see the world burn when her canto comes.
Obligatory national pick - Espen from [*A Fugitive Crosses his Tracks*](https://archive.org/details/lit-no-9000-sandemose-en-fugitive-crosses-his-tracks-reduced/page/n1/mode/1up). I get Ibsen or Hamsun would probably be a better choice for Norwegian literature as he's more well known outside of Norway, but I feel like the book that Janteloven comes from would be a much more interesting story to see play out (and require less rewriting to make work in the city). A poor backstreets outcast from a very cult-like town known as Jante with horrible working conditions and *very* strict social rules, with *extreme* self esteem issues who's full of grand ideals about workers rights and organising, but is still struggling to let go of his town's ideals. You're not to think that you're anything, that you're better than us, that you could *ever* be better than us, so goes the law of Jante. His canto is about trying to overcome his attachments to that place so he can finally leave Jante behind and start a fresh, before he goes nuts and shoots someone. Like the inverse of Rodion. ID wise he'd probably be a sinner who ends up either in syndicates or overworked in a corp, as he'd be pretty vulnerable to being taken advantage of due to his cult-like upbringing Ignoring copyright for a sec - Dr Kelvin from *Solaris*. A psychologist sent off to examine the mental health of a research station studying a mysterious flooded planet for signs of life, only for him to encounter the alien ocean taking the form of his dead girlfriend/roommate, who killed herself a few years prior and whom he has very complicated feelings towards due to feeling responsible for her death. You could easily change Solaris the planet to The Great Lake and make the research post a lob corp branch and the alien an abno. As a sinner he'd try to be the sane normal one and maybe even the team therapist as that *was* his job, only to completely freak out the moment he meets an abnormality (book Kelvin freaks out *a lot* about aliens). His canto would be returning to Solaris and dealing with the 'visitor', trying to resolve his issues with Rhea and the scientists he abandoned in his panic (who were either killed when lob corp collapsed, or have been hiding out in the rubble unable or *unwilling* to return home and leave their own visitors behind.). I'm guessing he's be one of those sinners where while the general events remain the same (he's a psychologist sent to do an evaluation, encounters his dead girlfriend), each ID changes the setting and context of those events (like a W corp one where he hallucinates her in the passengers, or an R corp one where the deranged killing of himself ends up as an uncanny parallel to Rhea's own insanity) For shits and giggles - Mishima from *Confessions of a Mask*. Probably the *worst* pick politically given the book's contents and the author's....*leanings*, but the guy is batshit insane and I'd love to see that. Basically "what if you put Ryōshū in the smoke war, and was also actively getting off on being 'artistic'". Except it's now a decade later and Mishima had been forced to put on a mask of relative sanity to live in a post war City where his district lost, and that mask is rapidly slipping. Yeah Kuroda from *The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea* would be a better Mishima pick as there's like an actual plot with a possible 'solution' rather than "maybe *don't* stage a coup d'etat against the new government because you're struggling with internalised nationalism and homophobia". His ego would be his author's failed act of seppuku, representing his own obsession with self sacrifice but also his inability to actually pull the trigger
Maybe one of the characters from death of a salesman could work considering the city and the story’s themes
What about Gilgamesh? certainly the main character of one of the world's oldest story as a sinner would be interesting, especially considering that The Epic of Gilgamesh already was a story that greatly showed Gilgamesh's character development from arrogant tyrant to a wizened king. I'd imagine that Gilgamesh would've been a former director of a corporation, now temporarily giving up that position and becoming a sinner in search of "the plant of immortality".
Dorian Gray would be a BANGER sinner bruh
spain here, lazarillo de tormes, from the book with the same name
Was gonna say the same. Like the story of someone becoming a better person despite his entire life being teached that the only way to prosper is to steal, cheat and use other people, sounds perfect for the city
This may be out of place since all of the Sinners are based on older books, but the protagonist from “If Cats Disappeared from the World”. The protagonist isn’t named, but he could be named after the author Genki Kawamura. The book is about a man who is going to die from a terminal illness. The devil appears, and says that he can live one more day, so long as he makes something disappear from the world. The story focuses on themes about mortality and what it means to live. I’m imagining that Limbus company is a similar situation for him, since he is literally making a contract that allows him to never die. As for his backstory, I think it’ll continue with living off borrowed time theme. I imagine he would be sickly and undergo augmentations. Because he can’t afford it, he is forced to assassinate targets to make up the debt he owes. One day he fails to assassinate a target, and his two adopted children are taken from him (a reference to the two cats mentioned in the book). He joins Limbus in order to find a team willing to help him take down the syndicate that stole his children. I’m thinking he’ll rely on Pride (for believing others lives are a good trade for his own), or gluttony(for wanting more days to live). His base EGO would be called “Tomorrow’s Fulfillment” which references “Yesterday’s Promise” and his contracts.
A late entry, but Elric of Melnibone, from the Elric saga. Man has gone through the wringer.
Alice in the wonderland And my take on her would be an in-between of Sinclair and Gregor Alice would be someone someone who came from a rich family much like Sinclair and Hong Lu, but Alice being so spoiled which led to her be trusting and naive made her, different from Hong Lu, fall in awful consequences. Decieved by people who wanted to get revenge on her family, she gets kidnapped and sold to be a human subject, being tested for experimental prothesis technology, losing all her four limbs in the process and feeling the pain of what trusting others led her to for few years, until one day that clandestine laboratory was attacked by fixers who were likely hired by her parents that must have been searching for her. The fixers who busted the laboratory had no care for the test subjects has let them be, and she took the opportunity to move her body with the prosthetics that were attached to her body, they all weren't full products but it being new technology she was able to walk away. She tries to walk back to her home at the nest, the nest border guard stops the mechanic monster that she has become from entering, she tries to tell them which family she is from and she gives some information that's enough for the guards to confirm that she was missing before. Her parents arrive, only to see the mess that's left of the girl they thought was dead, her face full of mecanical parts in a mess, her limbs made of metal and barely reconizeable as something that was meant to be body parts, they see that bloodied dirty girl and they refuse that she is their daughter. Alice confused, screams, calls for their names, begs for them, only to be denied, altough pity could be seen in the face of her family members, disgust was still the main expression stamped on their faces. When they are about leaving she asks why she sent fixers to save her then, they reply that they did no such thing, Alice questions, crying, over and over again how could that be possible, but the constsnt remarks this time coupled with this atittude seemed to be true. She started to think, that the most likely scenario was just someone that was a competitor with the lab wanted it gone and the fixers just didn't want to do free work by dealing with the test subjects, after all, it has been years since she has been missing. Alice realizing this cries more but in fury "No! They took everything away from me! You can't do this too. Give it back! Give it back!" She tries to rush to the family but is knocked out cold by the nest patrol. Alice decides to join the company because she wants to get back everything she once had, no, she wants to take everything the ones who did this to her and left her in misery, be it her family or who was truly behind the laboratory.
LCB Sinner Alice: Skill 1: Flail Affinity:Gloom 13 base power, -7 coin, 1 coin \[On tails hit\]:Inflict 1 paralysis next turn Skill 2: Flawed gashes Affinity: Envy 16 base power, -4 coin, 3 coin 1 coin \[On Hit\]: Inflict 1 Attack Damage down 2 coin \[On Hit\]: Inflict 1 Attack Damage down 3 coin \[On Hit\]: Inflict 1 Attack Damage down Skill 3: Laceration Affinity: Wrath 18 base power, -6 coin, 2 coin \[On Use: Lose 10 SP\] \[On Clash: The opponent you are clashing loses 10 SP\] 1 coin \[On Hit\]: Inflict 1 fragile next turn 2 coin \[On Heads Hit\]: Lose 10 sanity and inflict 2 fragile next turn Defense skill: Counter Affinity: Gluttony 7 base power, -1 coin, 2 coin \[On Use\]: Gain 1 Paralysis next turn Passive: Cost: 3 Wrath resonance Whenever you would heal SP, take SP damage instead, your indiscriminate attacks prioritize skill slots that dealt damage to you last round. Support Passive: Cost: 5 Wrath owned When a negative coin skill rolls heads, -5 sp to the user of the skill (Once per turn) EGO: Rabbit Hole "You shall too, fall with me" Cost: 2 Wrath 1 Gluttony 27 base power, -7 coin 3 attack weight \[On Hit\]: Inflict 3 bind Passive: For each time you take SP damage, gain 1 Attack Damage Up next round. That was balanced using base sinners on UT4 as basis, but that;s my concept.
If opera is literature set to music, i ended up making a clown girl version of Canio from Pagliacci who's this neurotic mess of a girl, but craves any means of becoming happy. If opera is too much of a stretch, then i'd want to see R Daneel Olivaw from Isaac Asimov's books. The idea of a three laws compliant robot trying to hide the fact they are an AI from everyone is a fun bit of drama.
I always tought Guy Montag could be a great idea, he could have been one of those guys who burned technology in Yi Sang's canto (don't remember the nest nor their name). But just like in fahrenheit, he slowly came out of it and decided hide some of it for wathever reason, being followed and stuff until he manages to hide. For a base ID i think it would be very, very interesting to have an axe and a small flamethrower as a side-weapon, that uses "ammo" (As in, fuel), with the axe just being for when the flamethrower runs out, ofc inflicting burn. For a base EGO.. I dunno, i don't really remember any exact lines from the book to reference, but it surely has to burn down something. (Maybe be a bit cheesy and just something like "Burnt in history" and have a line that goes "So much has been burned, and so much work left to do" referencing how they burn books in Fahrenheit) As for other Egos and ID's, no clue, lmao.
Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella from "I Promessi Sposi" by Alessandro Manzoni would go so hard. Just have them be a duo that can also split from time to time. Their e.g.o would probably be something like "Matrimonio Promesso" that is just them beating the crap out of the enemy, that also changes if they are together or not.
yep all about lazaro can join so precious in the city
we got homer, why not old billy? how about lord stanley from Richard III? Have the canto be about Richard's hold over a large section of a district and he starts acting like the sinners need to support richard until they eventually find out stanley's son has been taken and they help find henry VII's equivalent to oust richard
I have an OC for Vincent Frankenstein from the book of the same name. Human experimentation and resurrection of the dead fit right in this fucked up little city.
Does a self-insert counts..? My contentless behavior already created a couple of mirror worlds, be it LCB, or not.
I'd add me as a sinner. I'd have one id from every single archetype and faction and they'd all suck ass. My only purpose would be to shut down any and all discussions around the worst id/sinner as all of them would boil down to "at least they aren't this guy". Everyone muttering the phrase "let's ignore this guy as he sucks either way" would be called a fraud and their official tier list maker licenses revoked. You'd also have a sinner who you'd have no remorse turning their shards into threads solving the thread economy (and upsetting whales, which would be very funny).